From Lateral Violence to Lateral Kindness

From First Nations Health Authority in West Vancouver, BC, this is a helpful look at how this issue can be contextualized and redirected, once its sources are better understood. Here’s the full pdf to absorb and reflect. We can effect this change together.

”The impact of colonialism, residential schools, and cultural genocide continues to result in both

intergenerational and contemporary trauma for many Indigenous people. These impacts have also

resulted in lateral violence, which occurs when we direct our feelings of dissatisfaction or anger

towards one another – instead of recognizing that the true adversaries are colonialism, internalized

racism, and oppression in other forms.”